Music, interactivity and fun are key parts of Hebrew classes at CU, so instructors decided to extend the learning process into a club. The Hebrew club launches today with live music, Israeli dancing and Middle Eastern food.

Maps give viewers limited directions of how to get to one place to the next, and what’s in between. In her Ginzburg Geography Project, interdisciplinary artist Jewlia Eisenberg intends to map the greater journey.

The Southwest is an increasingly diverse region facing increasingly changing and controversial immigration laws. The University of Colorado graduate student group Racial Initiatives for Students and Educators (RISE) hopes to tackle these issues in Friday’s spring symposium.

America would like to think that it’s made a lot of progress in the last two centuries. The land of the free and the home of the brave has abolished slavery, promoted universal suffrage, won wars in search of a freer world and even elected an African American president. But one not so pleasant tradition has persisted throughout the years – minstrelsy. Even though America promises racial democracy, minstrelsy continues to thrive in new forms, creating a gray space in regards to the racism of modern-day blackface. Blackface minstrelsy began as shows intended to amuse white audiences. Performers would “black up” their appearance and attitude in their caricatures of slaves and other African Americans. While such blatant depictions are scarce in modern times, minstrelsy still prevails in subtle ways.